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No Free Lunch: Retrieval-Augmented Generation Undermines Fairness in LLMs, Even for Vigilant Users

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Main Authors:	Hu, Mengxuan, Wu, Hongyi, Guan, Zihan, Zhu, Ronghang, Guo, Dongliang, Qi, Daiqing, Li, Sheng
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2024
Subjects:	Information Retrieval Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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